Twenty Six

Is Twenty six a significant number? It’s two thirteens, which with thirteen being bad and all makes me unsure. If that’s true then our calendar is a bad thing. Each quarter of the year consists of thirteen weeks. There are twenty six weeks in six months, and four thirteens of course in the year, or fifty two weeks. But actually, fifty two weeks only amounts to three hundred and sixty four days, which is one day shy of a full year. There are really fifty two weeks and one day in the year, not just fifty two weeks even.

Twenty six weeks and one half day is actually one half of the year. Now if you’re one of those think ahead people you already figured out that there is no month that has a half day in it. So, six months really isn’t exactly a half of a year. It’s either a day short or a day over, but not exactly half a year. The reason being, you can’t divide 365 days into two equal whole numbers.

So what has this discussion of calendar math to do with the sleeping puppy? I figured that anyone who read all of this would be a sleeping puppy by the time they got this far, so… But anywho, today I celebrate twenty six weeks and one day of being nicotine free. And that my friends is truly a six months passage. Actually it’s been 38 weeks and a day since I smoked. This afternoon will be twenty six weeks and two days, and thirty eight weeks and two days respectively. I used the lozenges method to drop the cigarettes over a twelve week period, hence the twelve week split between time spent not smoking and time spent nicotine free.

Okay, so my twenty six isn’t as exciting as the TV show 24. The TV show is fiction. My life has changed for the better, for real. That’s pretty exciting to me! Thanks for listening. You can go back to sleep now. Lately, I’ve been sleeping pretty good, here beneath the Carolina moon.

Posted by Dread who thanks God for the stream of positive change, and prays to keep it flowing.